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Sunday, August 30, 2020

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State Representative Malcolm Kenyatta explains the history of redlining and Joe Biden’s plan for combating housing inequality. Interested in reading the full plan? Get all the details at

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Friday, August 28, 2020

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Charter Authorizer Responds to “How Charter School Regulations Harm Minority School Operators”

Finding ways to increase the numbers of applicants and charter schools led by Black and Latino/a people is a critical area of inquiry. We need high-quality research that can help light a path for how to get there.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

That’s why I was excited to read the recent Education Next article, “How Charter School Regulations Harm Minority School Operators,” describing new research on how regulation may be a deterrent to getting more Black and Latino/a people involved in charter schooling. This is a question the organization I lead, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, is focused on. We want to identify how regulation does and does not advance student learning and the public interest—a core element of state accountability policy and charter school authorizing. Inappropriate and stifling regulation thwarts the ability of aspiring and existing charter school operators, including those of color, to innovate and serve the unique needs of students and families. Effective regulation balances protecting public interests such as addressing opportunity gaps and taxpayer investments, while maximizing the time schools spend on teaching, learning, and meeting student needs.”

Yet, I was disappointed in the article because the study does little to advance our knowledge on that question, in large part because of how the study defines and uses race. Given our country’s long and tortured history of research being used inappropriately as a tool to advance inequity, researchers must take great care in using and interpreting race-based differences.

As a Black researcher who has spent decades trying to understand and advance equity in school systems—especially around charter school authorizing, school discipline, and special education—I’m very interested in research that provides solid evidence to advance issues of racial equity. Unfortunately, this research falls short of that bar.

The study describes searching social media profiles, employee profiles, and local news stories for the point of contact from each charter school application to code applicant race.

The researchers did not ask points of contact how they self-identify. Guessing an applicant’s race based on a picture or other “clues” in their digital footprint instead of how someone self-identifies, creates significant practical and validity challenges and is fraught with error. To “ensure sufficient validity” of their race variable, a second researcher went through a sample of applications, but at best that means the second researcher established the reliability of coder perceptions, not the validity of the measure.

The study also uses one person—the “designated point of contact” on an application—to represent the entire applicant group’s race. There is no reason to think that the perceived race of the point of contact is representative of the applicant group. Assuming that one person’s perceived race somehow represents the school leadership and governing board’s racial make-up is, again, fraught with error.

There are some other significant challenges to the study, including highly questionable measures of state “regulation,” not examining how changes in state regulation relate to changes in applicant approval (particularly important because state regulation changed significantly during the years of the study), and no discussion or examination on the degree to which state regulation relates to student performance, especially for Black and Latino/a students.

I hope the critique of this study doesn’t deter the aspirations of the authors. Their question is a good and important one. I hope the authors and other researchers continue exploring ways to build a robust pipeline of new charter school leaders and board members of color, identify barriers getting in the way, and chart a path forward in how to sustain people of color in charter school systems. There is no doubt that significant barriers exist, including inappropriate regulation, to realizing this vision. I hope this critique serves as a cautionary tale that creating an evidence base on racial differences must be carefully and thoughtfully done, so that ensuing recommendations and actions will lead to real improvement for school leaders, families, and, ultimately, students.

M. Karega Rausch, Ph.D. is the interim president and CEO and serves as the vice president of research and evaluation at the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

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He was a Republican long before President Donald Trump called himself one, but former senator of Arizona Jeff Flake recognizes the chaos caused by the Trump presidency. That is why he is putting country over party and backing Joe Biden for president.

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Wednesday, August 26, 2020

EdNext Podcast: Using Evidence in Education

The authors of Common-Sense Evidence: The Education Leader’s Guide to Using Data and Research, Nora Gordon and Carrie Conaway, join Education Next Editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss how leaders and educators can bridge the divide between academic research and real-time classroom application.

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Highlights from Joe Biden’s speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention. President Donald Trump has stoked fear and division in America. Joe Biden seeks to unite us to Build Back Better.

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Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Every Trainee Must Have the Opportunity to Check Out Books That Affirm Their Identity

I always found school history and literature boring. Growing up Taiwanese American, I never saw myself or my community represented in my school’s history or literature curriculums. When I entered middle school, however,  I slowly began to diverge from school-given reading lists. I would find myself obsessively poring over the work of Asian American writers and historians because their works were one of the only places where I could learn about my culture and community.

One of the most memorable Asian American works I came across was the playscript “The Chinese Lady written by Lloyd Suh. The script chronicles the journey of the first Chinese woman who was brought to the United States as a circus exhibition. Prior to reading the script, I had never encountered literature—or general resources—that so deftly explored the Asian American diaspora. I loved the play script because it seemed to speak distinctly to me and my community’s experiences. It gave me permission to dream a place for myself within the American narrative. This is why it is absolutely necessary for schools to offer ethnic studies classes.

Across the country, many students of color experience the same distance between their lived experience and their school curriculums. Their literature courses might include a paragraph of Confucius to serve as a “comparative perspective” to European philosophers. In world history classes, curriculums tend to gloss over non-Western regions, highlighting their origins and then neglecting them until they interact with the West. Students learn about Imperial Japan, for example, only after Commodore Perry’s voyage and India only under British rule.

Although one of the main goals of implementing ethnic studies is to create a more representative and resonant history curriculum for students of color, the course benefits all students by helping disrupt antiquated narratives about diverse communities that are taught in history and literature classes. They can also help dispel the idea that ethnic histories happen in a vacuum, connecting the effects of historical events and systems to current day happenings. The books, culture, and history introduced in ethnic studies classes provides a more accurate picture of America, introducing students to the complexity, beauty, and pain of our country.

Ethnic studies classes aren’t a second history or literature class for students. They can offer students critical understanding about racial identity. A study published by Inna Altschul and Daphna Oyserman University of Michigan and Deborah Bybee of  Michigan State University found that the more conscious a student is of racism and their racial identity, the more likely they are to perform better in school and life. By instituting these classes, schools can introduce students of color to material that speaks directly to them and motivate all students to prioritize racial inclusion and equity throughout the rest of their lives. In addition, ethnic studies benefits all students—and teachers—by immersing them in racially-conscious literature and curriculums and by encouraging dialogues of race and racial identity within the classroom.

Although reading Asian American texts like “The Chinese Lady” empowered me to explore my identity, every student should have the opportunity to read texts that affirm their identity in school. It is imperative for schools to implement ethnic studies because all students deserve the chance to develop a more culturally-conscious perspective, learn about their community’s history and be able to see and imagine a place for themselves within American history.

If my perception of race and belonging in America was able to be radically transformed by just a few books I read extracurricularly, imagine how transformative an institutionalized ethnic studies course would be for all students.

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Title: Every Student Should Have the Opportunity to Read Books That Affirm Their Identity
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Monday, August 24, 2020

Join the National Day of Action Demanding #InternetForAll

There are at least 15 million students in this country who don’t have reliable access to the internet. With schools closed during a pandemic, that means these students can’t go to school. We can change that. On Wednesday, August 26, we’re doing something big to change it and we hope you can join. 

Voice to Action, our partner site which works to drive activism for child justice across America, is hosting a National Day of Action Demanding Internet For All. Education activists from around the country will join digitally, and in-person, to protest a system that leaves a third of the U.S. student population with no way to go to school. 

Some of the largest school districts in the country have already signalled they will be fully virtual in the Fall, including Atlanta, Houston, LA, Philadelphia, Chicago and Phoenix. This cannot work for the students whose families don’t have broadband access. 

More than 20,000 of those students are in Philadelphia, home to Comcast, the nation’s fifth largest internet provider. This is why our partner activist, Philly-based educator Zachary Wright, is hosting a Demand #InternetForAll protest outside of Comcast’s headquarters. 

So many students and parents and teachers were using parking lots to access public hotspots that the tagline #ParkingLotWiFi trended. This is not sustainable for those families, and this day of action is our chance to show up for our neighbors. 

So we’re asking you to use your digital privilege and join us on August 26 to demand the FCC and major internet service providers serve this nation’s students and their families. 

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EdLanta will be hosting Atlanta #LockedOut, a virtual town hall, streamed live through the Black Wall Street Times. We demand #INTERNETFORALL 15 million students that are #LoggedOut.

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While Chicago has promised that 100,000 students will have free internet access for up to four years through its Chicago Connected initiative, there are still 15 million students across the country that are #LoggedOut.

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Friday, August 21, 2020

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Thursday, August 20, 2020

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What Charter School City In Fact Says

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The purpose of my new book, Charter School City, is to describe the unprecedented New Orleans school reforms, piece together more than three dozen studies about them from the center I direct, and explain what all of this might tell us about the future of schooling nationally. As a first-of-its-kind reform, New Orleans is a fascinating case study, which I describe by intermingling evidence with stories and interviews from those most intimately involved in the reforms.

Jay Greene, who penned a review of the book for Education Next, and I both seem to agree on many of the book’s main conclusions. We agree that the reforms yielded large and positive effects on a wide variety of metrics: test scores, high school graduation rates, college-going, achievement/opportunity gaps, and parent satisfaction. We agree that these effects were at least partially due to the unusual conditions of New Orleans and therefore may not generalize to other cities and states. We agree that it is important to understand why those effects emerged in New Orleans.

That might be where the agreement ends, but it’s difficult to tell. Greene focuses his unsuccessful critique on one specific conclusion that “closing and taking over low-performing schools was the factor above all others, that explains the improved student outcomes,” and that choice and competition were not key factors. The first problem with his critique is its focus on such a narrow part of the book.

The second problem is that even this narrow line of attack, as he has written it, doesn’t make much sense. Greene would like you to believe that my conclusion on school takeover is based on a single flimsy analysis. In reality, it is based on five different and compelling types of evidence:

  1. We used a difference-in-differences strategy, comparing New Orleans students who experienced takeover, before and after the takeovers occurred, to a comparison group. This is a widely accepted method for identifying causal effects. Our version goes a step further and combines the difference-in-differences strategy with another that selects the comparison groups via matching methods. Greene only argues that the difference-in-differences approach “sometimes produces spurious findings.” That’s true. In fact, all research methods can yield spurious findings if they’re carried out poorly or with limited data. However, he offers no specific critique at all of our analysis. He also doesn’t mention that we carried out many different versions of the analysis, all of which yielded the same conclusion.
  1. The same study he mentions also provides evidence about why the takeover process was so effective in this case. In particular, my co-authors and I find that it was effective for a very simple reason: New Orleans students ended up in better schools (measured by school value-added) when their schools were taken over, which further reinforces the conclusion that takeover was a key contributor to improved student outcomes. It’s almost common sense that students do better in better schools, but this simple point is something that has been missed in much of the national discussion of school takeovers. The book also shows that the same pattern holds when we look at studies of takeover in other states. He doesn’t mention or question this part of the analysis either.
  1. We also compared the experiences of New Orleans with our neighbor, Baton Rouge. In contrast to New Orleans, the Baton Rouge results do not yield positive benefits for students. This turns out to be easy to explain using point 2 above. Baton Rouge students ended up in lower performing schools after takeovers, while New Orleans students ended up in higher performing ones. Greene labels this an “ad hoc explanation.” Does he believe that students don’t do better when they move to better schools? I don’t know because he, again, provides no specific critique.
  1. Rather than rely only on rigorous analysis of student outcomes, I also talked to New Orleans education leaders. This is a helpful general strategy for understanding why effects emerge. If the quantitative analysis discussed above had conflicted with what educators told me, then I would have been circumspect about the quantitative analysis. But, without exception, New Orleans education leaders said the takeover process was key. Though Greene recommends that “education reform might benefit from…greater acceptance of qualitative analysis,” he makes no mention of the qualitative evidence in the book.
  1. The performance-based takeover process seemed so important in that first study that we developed a novel way to decompose school improvement into multiple parts. That study, “From Evolution to Revolution: Market Dynamics in School Value-Added and Marketed Program Offerings Under the Post-Katrina School Reforms in New Orleans,” suggests that we probably under-estimated the role of the takeover process in the study he cites. To be fair to Greene, that additional study was not published when I was writing the book. Also, I didn’t see a need to add it in the final book edits, given how compelling the rest of the evidence was (see points 1-4).

Put another way, to argue that school takeovers were not the driving force behind improved student outcomes, as Greene seems to suggest, you have to believe most of the following: (a) we made some kind of unspecified error in the New Orleans analysis—an error that neither he nor any other peer reviewer has identified; (b) that those errors had no effect, or the opposite effect, in Baton Rouge; (c) that students actually do better in low-performing schools or that our measures of school performance (value-added) are wrong, despite considerable evidence to the contrary; (d) that all the education leaders in New Orleans I spoke with are wrong about what drove the measurable improvement; and (e) that we made an another large, unspecified error in the follow-up study decomposing the effects into different parts. I will let readers judge for themselves whether this scenario is likely. But the key is that Greene does not attempt to make a case that any of this is true.

Another way Greene might have approached his critique would have been to argue that factors other than school takeover mattered even more. He mentions choice and competition as an alternative possibility, but he does not attempt to rebut the evidence I present that these were not key factors. I present evidence that families, in choosing schools, focus on practical factors like distance and after-school care, as well as extracurricular activities, not the outcome measures whose improvement I was trying to explain. I present evidence that essentially all schools were guaranteed sufficient enrollment, which greatly reduced competitive pressures. I summarize the large national research base showing that the effects of competition, while positive, are widely considered to be small. He does not question any of this evidence or even propose a theory about why these findings might be misleading.

Greene does point out, correctly, that I argue competition had some unintended consequences, but, again, he offers no rebuttal. Instead, he suggests that I add in discussion about Arizona, which cannot possibly inform a debate about whether takeover worked in New Orleans. He also gets sidetracked on the question of whether the National Association of Charter School Authorizers’ process for reviewing applications to operate charter schools was successful in identifying the best applications. This point is relevant to why school takeovers mattered, but not to the larger point about whether they mattered. If this were a movie review, his approach here would be equivalent to trashing the movie because he doesn’t like one of the extra actors hanging out in the background of the scenes.

His review gets more puzzling as it moves along. Greene implies that school takeover was the explanation I “prefer” for the New Orleans experience. In coming to your own judgment, you have to ask, why would I prefer this? School takeover is one of the least popular ideas in the history of education and not one I had ever written positively about in the past. The reality is that I prefer this explanation because this is what the data tell me.

Another problem with the review comes when he writes that the importance of school takeovers in New Orleans is the “heart of [my] argument.” But he never actually states what my argument is. This makes his review hard to follow, especially as the main focus of the book isn’t on making arguments at all.

My best guess is that he is referring to the conclusion that I draw late in the book that the government has some important roles to play in schooling vis-a-vis markets. (This is one of the most interesting and surprising things we learned, especially given the measurable success of the New Orleans reforms and their market orientation.) Specifically, I propose a framework that I call Democratic Choice, which suggests five general roles for government: providing accountability for schools, ensuring access to quality schools for all students, providing information and acting with transparency, ensuring engagement of families and the community in system-level decisions, and providing (some forms of) choice. Notably, this framework doesn’t call for active school takeovers, which belies his assertion that school closure is the “heart of [my] argument.” It also explicitly includes an idea—choice—that he suggests I am biased against. Puzzling indeed.

In any event, you don’t need to support any element of the Democratic Choice framework to get something useful from the book. In fact, my greatest concern with Greene’s review is that it gets the essence of the book wrong. The value of Charter School City, in my view, is that it presents a comprehensive picture of the New Orleans school reforms, not a simplistic story, as Greene would have you believe. If you are interested in learning about the complexity of the school reforms, if you want to hear from supporters and opponents of the reforms in their own words, if you want to hear the vast trove of evidence (in New Orleans and beyond) woven together, if you want to hear what went well and what did not, if you want to be surprised and engaged, and if you want to use all of this to think deeply about the roles of government and markets, then I think you will find the book worthwhile.

I can understand why Greene would oppose a book that affirms some roles for government. He generally opposes roles for government (beyond funding), and sometimes he makes interesting and important points to support that view. Especially in this time of political polarization, we need to listen to people who think differently than ourselves. But having a different perspective is not enough. We have to really listen to one another’s arguments, think about the elements of those arguments and supporting evidence, and analyze each part. This is where Greene’s review falls short. At the end of his critique, he writes, “well-done case studies … make their accounts compelling … [using] standards of evidence and logical argumentation.” I agree, and I wish he had applied that same standard to his review.

The New Orleans school reforms certainly do draw strong reactions. This is because the stakes are high. After a quarter-century of mostly small experiments with school choice, charter schools, and reduced job protections for teachers, New Orleans was the first to try them all at once, at scale. For that reason, we’ll be talking about the city’s experiences for years to come. I believe Charter School City is a valuable resource in that discussion.

Douglas N. Harris is professor and chair of the economics department at Tulane University and is author of Charter School City. He is also Tulane’s Schlieder Foundation Chair in Public Education and director of the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans and the National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice (REACH).

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Wednesday, August 19, 2020

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When Drew Lock came to be the beginning quarterback of the Denver Broncos they were coming off a frustrating loss to the Buffalo Bills as well as sat at 3-8 on the 2019 period. Over the course of the next five weeks the Broncos located a way to win four of their five continuing to be video games to complete simply under.500 on the year. Since then, John Elway's boldy pursued upgrades at receiver, running back, as well as has actually traded for even more talent on the protection. The boost to the supporting actors will certainly assist, but there's no doubt Drew Lock is the straw that stirs the drink for Denver in 2020.
Keeping that in mind, it looked like a suitable time to connect to Quarterback Historian Ryan Michael to obtain his ideas on the Broncos' 2nd year passer. While bearing in mind that he missed time because of injury, exactly how would you contrast Drew Lock's rookie season to various other quarterbacks? Ryan Michael: I was extra satisfied by Denver's 4-1 document to close out the period than I was by Lock's up-and-down newbie project.
The Broncos permitted 19.8 PPG throughout Lock's 5 begins (4-1). They likewise enabled 19.8 PPG throughout the team's previous 11 games (3-8). Being asked to rack up 20.0 PPG is a wonderful setting for a young quarterback to be in.
Lock was an upgrade over Joe Flacco and a huge upgrade over Brandon Allen. The "lows" were to be anticipated, as they would certainly be for any kind of novice quarterback. The "highs" went over, especially his performance vs. Houston (98.5 Complete QBR).
You've heard it claimed in the past, however 5 games is also little of a sample-size to read way too much right into. Can you clarify on that particular? What was most excellent about the 4-1 surface to you? Ryan Michael: The Broncos have been a team in a state of disarray given that winning Super Dish 50. After opening the 2019 period 0-4 as well as working their way to 3-8 before Lock took control of, it would have been very easy to limp their way right into a much better draft choice. That didn't take place.
Their protective uniformity-- something that Siemian, Lynch, Osweiler, Keenum, Flacco and Allen failed to totally capitalize on-- was there for their rookie quarterback to lean on.
Lock didn't get off to a Patrick Mahomes-like beginning, however can you visualize exactly how good the Broncos can be if their protection remains dependable while Lock discovers his footing amongst the new pieces they've included? I can. It's one reason I'm so excited for this year! Just how much growth do you expect Lock to make in between last year and opening up evening against the Titans? Ryan Michael: It's really tough to predict how much progression will certainly be made this offseason, for Lock or any type of various other player thinking about the distinct situations the world is encountering.
Adjusting to a brand-new offensive coordinator takes time and also with the lack of a common offseason and also preseason, you might not see the leaps you're hoping for up until mid-late period this year. With that in mind, what does Lock require to do for him to make an additional year at the helm? What would it take for you to consider this very first full year a success? Ryan Michael: Beyond honing his throwing auto mechanics (something terrific quarterbacks do throughout their jobs), I wish to see what Lock can do with greater mastery of the playbook, which will certainly take some time.
In spite of remarkable, Madden 21-like arm toughness, he had not been really efficient tossing downfield in 2019. What occurs when YAC isn't as plentiful? What occurs when your protection struggles and also you have no option however to broaden the variety of your tosses?
There is a huge distinction in between having the ability to sling it and in fact being an efficient downfield passer. There's a reason you would certainly take Peyton Manning over Jay Cutler one decade ago, or Russell Wilson over Josh Allen today in those situations.
Precision and also consistency are two of the most underrated quarterback traits there are, characteristics we usually ignore when discussing young quarterbacks.
For me to consider his very first complete season a success? I wish to see Lock conquer much less post-reception assistance. I would love to see him respond to a 3-touchdown Mahomes performance with a 4-touchdown pass efficiency. That's what it's going to take to win this department. What does Drew Lock require to do for you to really feel comfy with him as the starter in 2021 Broncos' Country?
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